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this policy statement from twitter is awful—the worst kind of sycophantism—it can be paraphrased as "we are committed to amplifying harm in proportion to an individual's capacity to cause it." but then again twitter as an organization has always intentionally misunderstood speech, construing it never as use but always mention https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/world-leaders-and-twitter.html
also the idea that blocking a world leader "would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions" is the most narcissistic garbage I've ever read. (a) it's like the movie theater owner giving out free tickets to the guy who shouts "fire!" ("we must encourage discussion about this man's words and actions") (b) your bullshit website is wayyyy less important to world politics than you think & if it was wiped out the sun would still rise in the morning
@aparrish also translates as "we have different rules for different people", the game is rigged and if you operate under a power structure they agree with you'll be protected, everyone else can go to hell
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also the idea that blocking a world leader "would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions" is the most narcissistic garbage I've ever read. (a) it's like the movie theater owner giving out free tickets to the guy who shouts "fire!" ("we must encourage discussion about this man's words and actions") (b) your bullshit website is wayyyy less important to world politics than you think & if it was wiped out the sun would still rise in the morning